24 Quick Brainteasers

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24 Quick Brainteasers

1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?

2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?

4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?

5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?

6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. How did sloppy die?

7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?

8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question, but the location is in Canada?

9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.

10. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?

11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?

12. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

13. Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?

14. What has four legs but only one foot?

15. How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?

16. Kindly old Grandfather Lunn
Is twice as old as his son
Twenty-five years ago
Their age ratio
Strange enough was three to one
When does Grandfather celebrate his centenary?

17. Said a certain young lady named Gwen
Of her tally of smitten young men
"one less and three more
Divided by four
Together give one more than ten"
How many boyfriends had she?

18. There was a young fellow named Clive
Whose bees number ten power five
The daughters to each son
Were as nineteen to one,
A truly remarkable hive.
How many sons (drones) were in the hive?

19. A team's opening batter named Nero
Squared his number of hits, the big hero!
After subtracting his score
He took off ten and two more
And the final result was a "zero".
How many hits did Nero make:

20. Some freshman from Trinity Hall
Played hockey with a wonderful ball;
Two times its weight
Plus weight squared, minus eight,
Gave "nothing" in ounces at all.
What was the weight of the ball?

21. The Bar Z ranch was a dude ranch. One day a new "dude" asked one of the stable hands how many men were tending the horses in the corral. Having a mischievous sense of humor, he replied, "I saw eighty-two feet and twenty-six heads". He then walked away, leaving the dude scratching his head trying to figure it out. How many men were tending the horses?

22. One morning as Paul was getting his newspaper, he noticed on his new house something that needed to be fixed. Heading over to the hardware store, he spoke to the manager, describing his problem. The manager said, "I know just what you need". He led Paul down some aisles and stopped in front of some bins. Digging down into some of the bins, he set something up on the shelf. "I saw your house when it was built", the manager said. "Here's all that you'll need and how much it'll cost... five will be 15 cents while fifty will be 30 cents, 250 will be 45 cents, while 2507 will only cost you 60 cents. One lady, about 20 blocks from your house, bought 30247 and only paid 75 cents! These are black, but they also come in gold and silver." What was the manager selling?
23. If it takes 3 people to dig a hole, how many does it take to dig half a hole?

24. What is the beginning of eternity. The end of time and space. The beginning of every end. And the end of every place?

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The Answers

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#3

Damn it Buff, you should've posted the answers in a weeks time..
Oh well, they're still awesome..

You can buy books of these riddles, too..

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QUOTE(WAI @ Dec 22 2006, 12:15 AM) Damn it Buff, you should've posted the answers in a weeks time..
Oh well, they're still awesome..

You can buy books of these riddles, too..
Sorry, it's been taken care of.

#5

Excellent..

#6

Wow...I'm really gonna have to think about some of these....

#7

Fuck the algebra is getting to me....I'm working on it...

1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?

Is it the word "what"? Some people say "wut", some people say "wot", some people say "waat".....

2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

I don't know.

3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?

How wide are the rungs themselves? I will assume an inch.

That makes the ladder 6.5 feet long, or 72 inches long.

12 inches = 1 foot.

15minutes x 4 = 1 hour.

The tide rises 4 feet, which is 36 inches.

Four rungs are under water, and almost the fifth rung...

4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?

White. It's a polar bear, because they live at the North Pole.

5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?

Half of two = 1 (2/2=1).

So, 1 + 2 = 3.

6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. How did sloppy die?

The water on the floor would indicate that he stood on a block of ice, and somehow restrained his head so when the ice would melt, he would choke and die. He tied his neck to the shutters I guess.

7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?

None, a hole is a void with dimensions.

8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first?

The bucket with the lower temperature would be less dense, as ice is less dense than water (the water is frozen).

Same question, but the location is in Canada?

I'm not too sure, as Canada is a big place, in some parts both buckets of water might freeze pretty quick so both would fall at the same rate, and in other parts, the situation would be similar to that in Hawaii.

9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.

I do not know what happened at 12:34 6th May 1978.

10. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?

An oxymoron.

11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?

Easy, 5 haystacks + 4 haystacks = 9 haystacks. Unless, he joins them all to make one giant haystack, so that would be 1 haystack.

12. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

Sanity.

13. Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?

He visited a parallel 1985 world and lost 5 years of his life in the process.

14. What has four legs but only one foot?

I don't know.

15. How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?

The amount of species known to the human race is still unknown. All we know that the amount of animals on the Ark would be double the amount of species present at the time.

16. Kindly old Grandfather Lunn
Is twice as old as his son
Twenty-five years ago
Their age ratio
Strange enough was three to one
When does Grandfather celebrate his centenary?

Now, L = 2s.

25 years ago, L = 3s.

100 = L,

I'm stuck.

17. Said a certain young lady named Gwen
Of her tally of smitten young men
"one less and three more
Divided by four
Together give one more than ten"
How many boyfriends had she?

11 = (b -1 + 3)/4

11 = (b + 2)/4

44 = b + 2

44 - 2 = b + 2

42 = b

Gwen is a bloody slut! lol

18. There was a young fellow named Clive
Whose bees number ten power five
The daughters to each son
Were as nineteen to one,
A truly remarkable hive.
How many sons (drones) were in the hive?

10^5 = b = 100,000

sum of d(aughters) + sum of s(ons) = 100,000

d = 19s

So, for every 20 bees, 1 is a daughter and 19 are sons.

100,000/20 = 5000.......

stuck.....

19. A team's opening batter named Nero
Squared his number of hits, the big hero!
After subtracting his score
He took off ten and two more
And the final result was a "zero".
How many hits did Nero make:

0 = h^2 - s - 12

12 = h^2 - s

12 + s = h^2

sqr of (12 + s) = h

What the hell is his score in the first place?

20. Some freshman from Trinity Hall
Played hockey with a wonderful ball;
Two times its weight
Plus weight squared, minus eight,
Gave "nothing" in ounces at all.
What was the weight of the ball?

0 = 2w + w^2 - 8

8 = 2w + w^2

8/2 = w + w^2

4 = w + w^2 [or w^2 + w]

4 - w = w^2

square root of (4 - w) = w

(square root of 4) - (square root of w) = w

2 = w^2

square root of 2 = w

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1.4 oz. = w

21. The Bar Z ranch was a dude ranch. One day a new "dude" asked one of the stable hands how many men were tending the horses in the corral. Having a mischievous sense of humor, he replied, "I saw eighty-two feet and twenty-six heads". He then walked away, leaving the dude scratching his head trying to figure it out. How many men were tending the horses?

Each man has two feet, each horse has four feet.

All have one head each.

Two men per horse.

26 heads = 2h + h

26 = 3h

26/3 = h

22. One morning as Paul was getting his newspaper, he noticed on his new house something that needed to be fixed. Heading over to the hardware store, he spoke to the manager, describing his problem. The manager said, "I know just what you need". He led Paul down some aisles and stopped in front of some bins. Digging down into some of the bins, he set something up on the shelf. "I saw your house when it was built", the manager said. "Here's all that you'll need and how much it'll cost... five will be 15 cents while fifty will be 30 cents, 250 will be 45 cents, while 2507 will only cost you 60 cents. One lady, about 20 blocks from your house, bought 30247 and only paid 75 cents! These are black, but they also come in gold and silver." What was the manager selling?

Mud?

I just know that the value of the item decreases as the amount of the item increases.

23. If it takes 3 people to dig a hole, how many does it take to dig half a hole?

3. One two dig it, and two to stand around looking like they helping.

24. What is the beginning of eternity. The end of time and space. The beginning of every end. And the end of every place?

Already discussed.

#8

I answered all of these and was going to post the answers in a spoiler, but there is no forum code for one.

guess you have to figure it out yourself. but seriously we need a spoiler code.

#9

the boat would rise as the tide rose, so it would be the same at high tide.

an umbrella is the answer to the chimney one.

moses didn't have an ark at least not that i know of lol.

i think that's all i know off the top of the noggin that haven't been answered already.

#10

"There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. How did sloppy die?"

My guess is that is that it would be a hurricane or something like that. And I agree with all of Kris's answers above